The Broadway Musical: A Critical and Musical Survey (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780810843769)

This new edition of Swain's classic award-winning text reveals how a musical drama achieves plot movement, character development and conflict through strategic placement of music in twenty impressive productions. Included is the latest research and viewpoints of contemporary critics, highlighting the various styles of important composers including Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, Jerry Bock, Stephen Sondheim, and Andrew Lloyd Webber. This new edition also includes a previously unpublished essay on Les Mis駻ables. An expanded epilogue offers insight into the phenomena behind Miss Saigon and Phantom of the Opera, "megamusicals" which seemingly popularized the Broadway tradition. For people interested in Broadway musicals, theater, popular music, American music, opera and/or twentieth-century music.

Author: Joseph P. Swain
ISBN-10: 0810843765
ISBN-13: 9780810843769
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Language: English
Published: 11/19/2002
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.56lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.16w x 1.35d